My Circle
My Circle.
- Part of
- Elitesgen app
- Availability
- Free forever
- Privacy
- Private to you
Five to fifteen people
Most of life comes down to a small handful.
The research on this is pretty consistent. The people who most shape the texture of your life are a small group. Family, a few close friends, maybe a partner, maybe a mentor, maybe the neighbor who has watched your kids grow up. Somewhere between five and fifteen names.
Those relationships get the least infrastructure. No app knows who they are. No tool helps you keep the thread warm. You remember their birthday if you remember. You notice they have gone quiet if you happen to notice. The people who matter most are the ones we most easily lose track of, because the world does not make a spectacle of them.
Your Circle is that list, privately held. You put the names in yourself. No one else sees them. It is the one part of the app where the work is entirely yours and the tool is entirely behind you.
Per-relationship memory, not a feed
One page per person. Shaped like a friendship.
There is no timeline in your Circle. There is no chronological feed of the people you love. Each person has a small, quiet page. A short note of things you want to remember: what they are working through, the thing they said on that walk, the date you promised to call.
You can ask the companion to remember something for you. “Remind me to check in on her around the anniversary of her mom's passing,” and it will, gently. You can write down the hard conversation you just had so you do not have to carry the whole weight of remembering alone.
Nothing in the Circle auto-posts. Nothing is public. Nothing is an event to be broadcast. It is a private notebook that happens to be assisted.
Gentle re-entry
When life gets loud, the Circle waits for you.
A hard month happens. A job change. A move. A season where you are barely keeping up with yourself, let alone anyone else. You come back to the app two months later and it has not punished you. It has not sent you a guilt-trip email.
The companion surfaces two or three names it thinks would be worth a short note to. Not a list of every person in the Circle, not a backlog. Two or three. Small steps back in. A sentence is enough. The world does not need an essay.
Reconnection is the hardest part of staying in anyone's life. We built the app to help with exactly that, and to never make it worse.
Privacy
Never searched. Never shared. Never advertised to.
Your Circle is not discoverable. It does not appear in search. It does not show up on anyone else's profile. The person in it may not be a member of the app; you do not need their permission to hold them privately in mind.
Nothing in your Circle is shared with any third party. Nothing in it is used as training data for a model. Nothing in it shapes an ad, because there are no ads. Your notes are encrypted at rest, keyed so that the Foundation's infrastructure can operate on them for you but cannot read them in bulk.
You can export everything. You can delete everything. Both are real operations, not checkboxes. See Data practices.
What your Circle data looks like to us
Almost nothing. That is the point.
The Foundation, as an operator, can see aggregate and encrypted signals: that a user's Circle exists, how many people are in it in rough buckets, whether the feature is being used. We cannot read your notes. We cannot read a specific name. We cannot see what you wrote about a particular person.
This is a deliberate architectural choice. We are uninterested in knowing what you hold here, and we built the system so we cannot casually know even if we became curious. Your Circle is not a training set. Your Circle is not feed input. Your Circle is not a product.
We publish how all of this is stored, handled, and aged out. See Data practices and Security.
Circle and the companion, together
The companion holds context, so check-ins land well.
The companion knows, at a gentle level, who is in your Circle and what you have noted about them. Not the full content of the notes. The shape of them. The facts you flagged as important. The rhythms you said you wanted to keep.
That is what makes a nudge land well instead of land wrong. “A note to your sister this weekend?” is warm when the companion knows she is in your Circle and has been on a hard stretch. The same line, from an app that does not know anything, would be an imposition.
The companion never contacts anyone for you. It never sends a message on your behalf. It is a reminder and a gentle suggestion, nothing else. The relationship is yours. The app only makes it a little easier to stay in it.
Keep the thread warm.
A quiet tool for the people who already matter. It will not fix your relationships for you. It will make it a little harder to lose them to drift.